Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Expanded edition with a new story: The duckling that was judged on its personal merits - Rilegato

Garner, James Finn

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ISBN 10: 0285640410 ISBN 13: 9780285640412

Casa editrice: Souvenir Pr Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

In a collection guaranteed to provoke both laughter and thought, 14 timeless fairy tales are revisited and reworked to become relevant fables for more modern times. These hilarious adaptations satirize and sanitize the sexist, racist, nationalist, ageist, sizeist, ethnocentrist, and phallocentrist biases of classic bedtime stories. Familiar exploits of beloved characters are related from a respectful, prejudice-free perspective: the Emperor is no longer naked in his new clothes but ?is endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle,” Snow White escapes to the cottage of ?seven vertically-challenged men,” and Goldilocks is an ambitious scientist studying anthropomorphic bears. With a redesigned jacket and a previously unpublished story, this expanded edition is sure to appeal to readers of multiple generations who find political correctness is as topical as ever.

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Recensione:

One of those works which cleave an author instantly to your heart... It is beautiful. It demolishes, in few but elegant words, a dozen kinds of silliness. --Libby Purves, The Times

Not only essential reading for adults of all ages, but also the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC. --The Observer

The definitive, non-exploitative, non-patriarchalist (dontcha hate doing that to the kids?) ... collection of bedtime stories. --Daily Telegraph

Descrizione del libro:

A witty contemporary parody of traditional fairy tales.

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• Editore: Souvenir Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0285640410
• ISBN 13: 9780285640412
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 86